Archives for 2010

One of the little gems we stumbled on recently, when Max was trawling through iPlayer (god how i love that service) was Chemistry – A Volatile History. It has been one of the most eye opening experiences of my educational life and certainly an enormous success in terms of how HE works, not only in […]

And some of them are repeatedly having to explain and defend home education and the right to do so to people who will not take the time to inform themselves or open their minds. Like this particular Lord for example or indeed this one, who seems to have taken it into her head to fall […]

Can’t remember where i left off, but it doesn’t really matter. Last week ended in the normal dancing/kyt type stuff and a good bit more house tidying, before packing ourselves up and heading northwards to my parents house for a night before gong away. That was very pleasant; girls played various games with my dad […]

Tuesday was a good day; i’m trying to do more work that pulls all the girls together a bit. In general i don’t mind having them working independently around me, i don’t find it particularly hard to juggle 4 separate children doing 4 separate things and helping each one but with the potential arrival of […]

Much as i hate using the blog for this, on our boring box ticking days, it is quite a useful thing to do. Not done anything terribly remarkable either but everyone got on with it and seemed quite glad to be back. Fran – Chp4 history, started GP Decimals Chp, Music, times tables, reading Carrie’s […]

Happy Birthday to me 🙂 I like this particular birthday, (it would have been a good one to be 10 on!) as the date was 10.01.10 – i managed to look at the clock at 10.01am too. Had a lovely day, with a breakfast of egg and bacon muffins made by Fran and some lovely […]

Today…. did reading with Josie; she remembered the words 9and could read some of it back to Daddy later) to quite a lot of Peter and Jane 1a. We also read a Penguins book, picked out words like penguin, eggs, ice and waddle to find on different pages, did some counting of various things and […]

I’ve managed to be ill for most of the time since Xmas day, first with a cold and then with some lingering cough virus which will neither bugger off, nor be quite bad enough to make me properly ill. So i’ve been asleep a good bit, coughing when awake and feeling slightly out of sorts. […]